Bill Law is a Sony award-winning journalist. He joined the BBC in 1995 and since 2002 has reported extensively from the Middle East. In 2003, he was one of the first journalists to cover the beginnings of the insurgency that engulfed Iraq. His documentary, “The Gulf: Armed & Dangerous,” which aired in late 2010, anticipated the revolutions that became the Arab Spring. He then covered the uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. He has also reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before leaving the BBC in 2014, Law was the corporation’s Gulf analyst. He now works as a freelance journalist focusing on the Gulf, and he is a regular contributor to The Independent, Middle East Eye, Monocle Radio, Gulf States News, the BBC and The New Arab. He also runs TheGulfMatters.com.

Most of the new employment that Vision 2030 is supposed to create needs to come from the private sector. Two years and counting into the radical transformation of the Saudi economy known as Vision...Written by: Bill Law

We are at a very low point for journalism in the Gulf and the wider Middle East. My thoughts are with Hatice Cengiz and Jamal Khashoggi’s family at this very painful time. The job of journalists is...Written by: Bill Law

Following Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination, serious questions are finally being asked about British and American involvement in the Yemen War. There is a link between the disappearance and murder of...Written by: Bill Law

The disconnect between many of the good economic reforms MBS wants to secure and the way he is using his power to crush dissent grows ever wider by the day. On October 2, Saudi journalist Jamal...Written by: Bill Law

Mohammed bin Salman’s reputation as someone the world can do business with has suffered significant damage. When then-deputy crown prince and now crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin...Written by: Bill Law

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